On Thursday, Gender Justice League, organizers of the annual Trans Pride event on Capitol Hill, held their first annual Gender Justice Awards dinner at Melrose Market to highlight and showcase the incredible activism of Trans and Allied Activists who have made incredible strides for Trans, Gender Queer, and Gender Non-Conformore --------------------------------------------------

The Martin Luther King County Labor Council (MLKCLC), the organization representing most local unions, put on a bold new face August 6 when its Executive Board elected the first woman Executive Secretary and also named Transgender activist Marsha Botzer as a trustee.

Homophobia comes from the same exclusionary mindset as racism, President Obama told a meeting of young African leaders August 3.

President Obama spoke at a three-day summit of the Young African Leaders Initiative in Washington, D.C. The president recently returned from a visitmore --------------------------------------------------

The pilot program for a pedestrian-only E. Pike St., which will restrict vehicular traffic on E. Pike St. between Broadway and 12th Ave from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m., creating a pedestrian zone in the city's largest concentration of nightlife, begins Saturday.

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As the celebration of marriage equality winds down our community appears poised to pivot toward, and bring the primary focus of our formidable influence, to the fight for passage of the newly introduced Equality Act, which would provide more comprehenmore --------------------------------------------------

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced that it will cohost Rural Pride on August 14 in Jackson, Miss.

The USDA will work with the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Fund to produce the event in conjunction with the Nationalmore --------------------------------------------------

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